Check-row wire-reel attachment



(No Model.)

W. H. & G. WERTZ.

CHECK BOW WIRE REEL ATTAGHMENT No. 411,699. Patented Sept. 24, 1889.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE;

XVILLIAM H. WERTZ AND GEORGE NERTZ, OF ELMW'OOD, ILLINOIS.

CHECK-ROW WIRE-REEL ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 411,699, dated September 24;, 1889. I

Application filed March 23, 1389. Serial No. 304,496. (No model.)

To CbZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM H. WER'rz and GEORGE WERTZ, citizens of the United States, residing at Elmwood, in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Check- Rowers; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

This invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements in check-rowers; and it has for its object to provide a simple attachment to a corn-planter, whereby the check-row wire is taken up or laid down.

The invention consists in the peculiar combinations and the novel construction, arrangement, and adaptation of parts, all as more fully hereinafter described, shown in the drawings, and then particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Theinvention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a side view illustrating our improvement as attached to a corn -planter. Fig. 2 is a top plan of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the combined sprocketwheel and pulley detached, with the chain shown on the pulley.

Referring now to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates the axle of the planter, and B the wheels thereon.

O designates the side bars of the planterframe, which is provided with the castings D, into which fit the reduced ends of the forward portion of the frame of the attachment, said frame consisting of the side bars a, the ends of which are engaged in said castings and rest on the cross-bars 1), connecting said side bars, on one of which rest the bars of the attachment-frame between their outer ends and their points of attachment to the planterframe, to better support the said side bars, as shown best in Fig. 1.

E is a sprocket-wheel formed in the shape of a ring, on the inner periphery of which are formed the lugs d, which are provided with flanges e to engage the spokes of the bearingwheel, to which they are secured by bolts and clips, so as to make the said ring rigid with the wheel and to turn with it.

Journaled in suitable hearings in the rear ends of the side bars of the frame of the attachment is the transverse shaft F, carrying between the said side bars a drum G, on which the check-row wire M is designed to be wound.

One end of this shaft is extended beyond the side bars of the attachment-frame, and has se cured thereto in line with the sprocket-wheel E a smaller sprockecwheel H, around which and the said sprockecwheel E passes the end less sprocket-chain I.

Thumbscrews f are passed through the castings D and engage the ends of the side bars of the attachment-frame to deiachably hold them to the planter-frame,whereby the attachment may be readily removed when desired.

The shaft F, just inside the sprocket-wheel H, carries a smooth pulley J, of slightly less diameter than the said sprocketwheel, for a purpose hereinafter made apparent.

The operation is apparent. As the planter is driven forward it conveys motion to the shaft F through the medium of the sprocketwheels and chain above described, and winds up the Wire on the drum. \Vhen it is desired to lay down the wire for use in the field, the chain I is moved oif the smaller sprocket wheel onto the smooth pulley 3, thus allowing the reel or drum to slide around as the wire runs oif, as, owing to the said pulley being slightly smaller than the sprocket-wheel, the chain will be somewhat loose on the pulley.

\Vhat I claim as new is- 1. The combination,with the planter-frame and its wheels, of the attachment thereto, con-- sisting of the sprocket-wheels, sprocket-chain, drum, and smooth pulley, all substantially as shown and described.

2. The combinatiomwith the planter-frame and the wheels, of the castings on the planterframe, the blocks 0, the attachment-frame detachably held in said castings and resting on said blocks, the drum journaled in the rear end of said attachmentframe, the sprocketwheel on the bearing-wheel, the sprocketsprooket-wheel with a sprocket-wheel on the wheel of the planter, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that we claim the above we have hereunto subscribed our names in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. WERTZ. GEORGE WERTZ. Witnesses:

S. H. SNYDER, W. M. BROWN. 

